The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - These bargaining units include the nine units represented by Local 1000 (Units 1 [administrative, financial, and staff services], 3 [professional educators and librarians], 4 [office and allied], 11 [engineering and scientific technicians], 14 [printing and allied trades], 15 [allied services], 1 7 [registered nurses], 20 [medical and social services], and 21 [educational
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Public Safety)

Sep 7, 2023 - Pay Increases Unit 7 Average Base Pay Slightly Lower Today Than 20 Years Ago. As Figure  2 shows, after controlling for inflation, the average Unit 7 base pay has fluctuated significantly over the past two decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4802

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Sep 1, 2023 - Due to one-time costs associated with provisions of the agreement, 2025 ‑26 would be the highest cost year resulting from the agreement, increasing costs in that year by $152  million ($58  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that about 235 rank-and-file employees and about 58 excluded employees receive this payment and that the provision would increase annual state costs by $699,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - However, the agreements with Units 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety), 12 (Craft and Maintenance), and 13 (Stationary Engineers) would phase in the restoration of the contribution rate so that the state ’s contribution would not be fully restored until 2029-30.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - In total, after accounting for compounding of the deferred GSI, the agreement would give employees a 5.58  percent GSI in 2021 ‑22. 2022 ‑23 GSI. Effective July 1, 2022, the agreement would provide Unit 6 members a 2.5  percent GSI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - When CalHR did release a compensation study of Unit 6 compensation in 2023 (referred to as the 2022 compensation study because it relies on data from 2022), we were highly critical of the methodology adopted for the study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - The proposed agreement would increase the longevity pay differentials by 2  percentage points so that employees with 17 or 18 years of service would receive an additional 3  percent of pay (compared to 1  percent now); 19 years of service would receive an additional 4  percent of pay (compared to 2  percent now); 20 years of service would receive an additional 5  percent of pay (compared to 3
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

The 2022-23 Budget: State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 15, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan The 2022-23 Budget State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan Summary. The 2022 ‑23 Governor ’s Budget proposes $1  billion General Fund in 2022 ‑23 and $2  billion in 2023 ‑24 to make state payments on the federal Unemployment Insurance (UI) loans the state received during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4543

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - (Although there is evidence of inflation slowing [as we discuss here and here ], inflation has been high—exceeding 7 percent for much of 2022 and totaling 15 percent overall since 2020.) Consequently, although the state will need to find solutions to the budget problem, the state also will feel pressure to maintain—if not increase—employee compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665